Reducing Assessment Frequency: And Other Recommended Reading from AJN’s August Issue
The August issue of AJN is now live.
Does decreasing comprehensive physical assessments from twice daily to once daily in the general care setting affect patient safety or care quality? The authors of “Optimizing Nurses’ Time: Reducing Assessment Frequency in General Care” discuss a quality improvement project that addressed this question.
This month’s CE article, “Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment of This Little-Known Condition,” outlines presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up and the nursing implications for the care of these vulnerable patients. (Open access)
In “Health Care Workers and Burnout: A Cross-Sectional Study,” Vidal and colleagues note that “the effects of trauma-informed care practices on health care worker burnout, in the context of stressors such as workplace violence, are not fully understood.” Their study explores associations between workers’ attitudes toward trauma-informed care, worries about workplace violence, and burnout through a survey administered as part of a public health initiative.
Our August AJN Reports, “Barriers to Full Practice,” examines the American Medical Association’s push against APRN independence.
The latest article in the Nursing Research, Step by Step series, “Reporting Guidelines: An Overview,” explains reporting guidelines relevant to nursing research, how they’re developed, and why they’re important; introduces the EQUATOR […]
On the cover, Michelle Nai, MSN, RN, GERO-BC, at left, and Christine Waszynski, DNP, APRN, GNP-BC, at right, do doll therapy with a patient at the Therapeutic Hub—a nurse-led space at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, that offers multisensory activities to hospitalized older adults tailored to their interests and needs. Read Nai and colleagues’ 